A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 4 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 342 pages of information about A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 4.

A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 4 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 342 pages of information about A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 4.
Hesperides ( = the garden of the Hesperides)
Heywood, Thomas, his play of The Captives; lines at the end of his
  Royal King and Loyal Subject identical with the Address To the
  Reader
at the end of H. Shirley’s Martyd Souldier; the play of
  Dick of Devonshire tentatively assigned to him; the MS. play
  Calisto composed of scenes from his Golden Age and Silver Age
Hocas pocas
Holland’s Leaguer
Horace, quoted (In the lines
    “Now die your pleasures, and the dayes you pray
    Your rimes and loves and jests will take away”
  are imitated from Horace’s Ars Poetica, ll. 55-6,—­
    “Singula de nobis anni praedantur euntes;
    Eripuere jocos, Venerem, convivia, ludum.”)
Hott shotts
Hounslow Heath, Sword-blade manufactory at
Huckle bone
Huffing
Hunts up
Hypostacies

Imbrocados (thrusts over the arm in fencing)
Incontinent
Iron mills
It ( = its)

Jacke
Jiggs
Julius Caesar (puppet-show of)
Juvenal quoted

Keepe
Knight a the post
Knowes me no more then the begger knowes his dish know him as well as
  the begger, &c. 
Kramis time

Lacrymae
Ladies Downfall
Lady Mother, comedy by Glapthorne (identical with The Noble Trial,
  entered in Stationers’ Registers in 1660)
Lanch (unnecessarily altered to lance in the text)
Lancheinge of the May, MS. play by W.M.  Gent. 
Lapwing
Larroones
Lather ( = ladder) (In Women beware Women Middleton plays on the word:—­
     “Fab.  When she was invited to an early wedding,
    She’d dress her head o’ernight, sponge up herself,
    And give her neck three lathers.
    Gaar.  Ne’er a halter.”)
Laugh and lye downe
Launcepresado
Law, the spider’s cobweb
Legerity
Letters of mart
Leveret
Limbo
Line of life
Linstock
Long haire, treatise against (An allusion to William Prynne’s tract
  The Unlovelinesse of Love-Lockes.)
Loves Changelings Changed, MS. play founded on Sidney’s Arcadia
Low Country Leaguer
Lustique

Machlaean
Macrios
Magical weed
Makarell
Make ready
March beere
Marlins
Marlowe’s Hero and Leander quoted
Marriage, restrained by law at certain seasons
Martial quoted
Mary muffe
Masque (MS.) containing a long passage that is found in Chapman’s
  Byron’s Tragedie
Massinger, his share in the authorship of Sir John Van Olden Barnavelt
Mawmets ( = puppets)
Mawmett ( = Mahomet)
Meath (A curious corruption of Mentz.  Old printers distorted foreign
  names in an extraordinary manner.)
Mechall
Mention ( = dimension)
Mew
Middleton, quotation from his Family of Love
Minikin ( = fiddle)
Mistris
Moe
Monthes mind

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